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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, of St. Louis, April 23, 1865
In considering them let me ask, did Abraham Lincoln deserve to die? Was he a tyrant Pardon me, my mourning countrymen, that I should for a moment apply that title to him who wished to be absolute in nothing, save in the power to forgive.
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